http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/the-big-ideas/topics/carlos-castaneda-chatter-in-our-heads en-us 60 <p align="center"><em>&quot;We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves about ourselves and our world, the world is always as it should be. We renew it, we rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our internal talk. Not only that, but we also choose our paths as we talk to ourselves. Thus we repeat the same choices over and over until the day we die, because we keep on repeating the same internal talk over and over until the day we die. A warrior is aware of this and strives to stop his internal talk.&quot;</em></p><p align="center">&nbsp;</p><p align="center">~ Carlos Castaneda, 20th century mystic and Toltec warrior</p><p align="center">from <em>A Separate Reality</em></p><p>We're always talking to ourselves.</p><p>Just as Hinduism and Buddhism encourage us to control our mind Toltec wisdom teaches us to control our &quot;internal dialogue.&quot;</p><p>Here's to turning off that noise and just being ourselves.</p> Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:43:11 -0000 forums.thinkarete.com:503:149:149 brian http://forums.thinkarete.com/forums/503/topics/149